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The state Supreme Court has disbarred a Rehoboth-area lawyer, Michael D. Carr, who was found to have kept poor financial records of his law work and was sued by the state for failing to pay $27,000 in taxes.

In a July 9 order ejecting Carr from the ranks of lawyers licensed to practice in Delaware, Justice Randy J. Holland noted Carr consented to his disbarment in an agreement reached with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel. Carr had been suspended from the practice of law since December.

Court records show Carr was pursued by the state’s Division of Revenue for $17,500 in unpaid personal income taxes in 2013, covering three different tax years. His overdue tax bill was settled this past May, court records show, but by then the ODC had already recommended he be sanctioned for “failure to maintain his firm’s books and records,” along with “misrepresentations on his annual registration statements and certificates of compliance and failure to timely pay state and federal tax obligations,” according to a public notice.

Carr also had to pay a lesser overdue tax bill for $2,400 in March 2012, court records show. An attorney who represented Carr in disciplinary talks, Charles Slanina, did not return a call for comment.

Carr’s office was in Rehoboth Beach, representing people in civil disputes and personal injury cases. For several years, Carr also served on the state bar’s Professional Guidance Committee, a group of attorneys who counsel lawyers with personal or professional problems.

He was also one of several attorneys who represented patients of Earl Bradley, who was convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting children in his doctor’s office, in civil claims against the former pediatrician and Beebe Healthcare. Carr is the fourth lawyer disbarred by the Supreme Court this year.